Do you love tahini as much as I do? It is one of the most nutritious ingredients in the Mediterranean Diet, an excellent source of copper and selenium, important for immunity boosting and more. It’s also delicious, of course, and Samythos, which you can find online, is special: Passionate artisan Thanassis Polyzoidis produces dark, nutty cold-pressed tahini from organic unhulled sesame seeds, which he grows in what was traditionally the sesame basket of Northern Greece. Guest writer Diana Farr Louis talked to Polyzoidis about why tahini is his life’s work.
Friends, fans and followers, welcome to this little collection of 35 Vegan Thanksgiving Recipes Inspired by Greek Flavors! So much of Greek cooking is naturally vegan that we often just take our great plant-based dishes for granted.
Enjoy this selection of traditional and contemporary Greek-Inspired Vegan Thanksgiving Recipes…from my Greek table to yours!
Pastitsio and its many incarnations are the perfect food for our times: it offers comfort in the knowledge that even the most steadfast of things are in a state of constant change.
Corfu is not your typical Greek island. It’s very humid, and it averages the most rainfall yearly in all of Greece, making it incredibly green and giving the island a distinct terroir from the rest of the country. And so perhaps it stands to reason that Corfu also does not produce your typical Greek olive […]
Greek Meze Primer All over the Mediterranean, small, savory plates of food enjoyed in a convivial atmosphere make for one of the region’s basic dining experiences. Known widely now as tapas, antipasto, merende, even hors d’oeuvres, these tidbits comprise a whole pan-Mediterranean culture: that of sharing food and drink with friends in an unrushed, unharried […]
Lentils are a kind of miracle food. They calm us down and fill us up with good nutrition. They’ve been part of the Greek diet forever and are, indeed, one of the indigenous pulses of the Eastern Mediterranean, around forever. I am paying homage to the humble Greek lentil soup in several variations, peppered with a little nutritional info, too!
This year, “back to school” has particular significance. We are all looking forward to some return to normalcy. Back to school also calls to mind lunch! At least for me, and by default also extends to the (hopefully large) back-to-the-office crowd. Whether you’re brown-bagging it on the way to the classroom or office doesn’t matter; […]
Gyro: An Ancient Greek Street Food Who would’ve known! There is actually a National Gyro Day and this year it is Sept. 1! Yes, gyro, as in that tapered tower of thinly sliced meat rotating on an upright spit that is a delectable street-food in many parts of the world. Gyro, pronounced “GHEE-ro” in Greek […]
Xinomavro is the leader of Greece’s red wines. It is a grape so wild, so extreme, that it has taken generations of determined winemakers and farmers to tame it to the brutally elegant wines it produces today. A variety worthy of its title, the King of Greek Wines. The name of the grape indicates much […]
Agiorgitiko is a mouthful. A complicated name for a complex wine. Complicated in the ways that it’s difficult to pronounce, that its spelling changes label to label, and its name has changed over the several millennia that this grape has existed. Let’s go back to the beginning. Agiorgitiko originates from Nemea where even then they […]
